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Biology

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Laura Dobbins
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Assessment of Traditional and Alternative Endpoints Using Chemical Toxicity Distributions: Paraben Hazards to Select Aquatic Organisms"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry World Congress Meeting
Sydney, Australia. August 3-7, 2008.

"Traditional and Alternative Endpoints of Paraben Toxicity to Select Aquatic Organisms Utilizing Chemical Toxicity Distributions"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America 29th Annual Meeting
Tampa, Florida. November 16-20. 2008.

Christopher Filstrup
Sponsor: Dr. Owen Lind

"Pre- and Post- Burial Alteration of C:N in a polymictic reservoir"
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Newfoundland, Canada. June 8-13, 2008.

Nick Green
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Biogeographic patterns in the small mammal faunas of eastern and central Texas"
Texas Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting
Junction, Texas. February 20-22, 2009.

Brianna Kirchner
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Effects of Fire on the Small Mammal Community and Vegetation of a Tall grass Blackland Prairie in Texas"
American Society of Mammalogists
Brookings, South Dakota. June 21-25, 2008.

Zun Liu
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Kearney

"Expression, Antigenicity, and Enzymatic Activity of the Cedar Allergen, Jun a 1, Using a Plant Viral Vector"
World Congress on in Vitro Biology
Tuscan, Arizona. June 14-18, 2008.

Jason Locklin
Sponsor: Dr. Darrell Vodopich

"The Distribution and Ecology of Texas Alderflies"
Texas Academy of Science Annual Meeting
Junction, Texas. March 5-7, 2009.

Thomas Pettit
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Forest Bat Activity Along Traditional and Sky-Canopy Edges"
North American Symposium on Bat Research
Scranton, Pennsylvania. October 22-25, 2008.

"Plasticity of Mexican Free-tailed Bats Echolocation in Different Clutter Types"
Texas Society of Mammalogists
Junction, Texas. February 20-22, 2009.

Stacy Pfluger
Sponsor: Dr. Rene Massengale

"The Survival and Potential Virulence of Escherichia coli in Wastewater Treated by Onsite Systems"
Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology
Boston, Massachusetts. June 1-5, 2008.

Jason Taylor
Sponsor: Dr. Ryan King

"Periphyton response to nutrient enrichment in a stoneroller-dominated world"
North American Benthological Society 57th Annual Meeting
Grand Rapids, Michigan. May 17-22, 2009.

Theodore Valenti
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Potential Factors that Govern the pH-dependent Toxicological Relationship of Allelochemicals Released by Prymnesium parvum Carter (Golden Algae)"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America 29th Annual Meeting
Tampa, Florida. November 21-25, 2008.

Biomedical Studies

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Jason Berninger
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Comparative Ecotoxicology of Pharmaceuticals A Screening Approach for Performing Chemical Mode-of-Action Studies in Fish"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America 29th Annual Meeting
Tampa, Florida. November 21-25, 2008.

"Probablistic Assessment of Mammalian Pharmacological Data to Estimate Potential Environmental Risk of Pharmaceuticals in Fish"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry South Central Regional Chapter Annual Meeting
San Marcos, TX. May 21-23, 2009.

Taylor Ott
Sponsor: Dr. Sung-Kun Kim

"Nucleotides Binding Class A & (beta) - Lactamase from Bacillus Cereus"
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. April 18-22, 2009.

Brandon Rigby
Sponsor: Dr. Brian Garner

"Comparing the Trunk Kinematics of Able- Bodied Humans during Normal Gait and When Riding a Therapeutic Horse"
Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research
Houston, Texas. March 19-20, 2009.

Lee Tran
Sponsor: Dr. Bradley Keele

"Low Serotonin Increases Glutamate Receptor 1 (GluR1) Transcription and Receptor Expression in Rat Lateral Amygdala Neuron"
Society for Neuroscience National Conference
Washington, DC. November 15-19, 2008.

Chemistry & Biochemistry

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Milenka Arispe
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Trawick

"Thiosemicarbazones Inhibitors of Cathepsin L"
Latin American Chemical Congress
San Juan, Puerto Rico. July 28 to August 1, 2008.

Jason Bell
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Garner

"Synthesis and Applications of Chiral Phosphabenzenes"
American Chemical Society National Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August 17-21, 2008.

Helena Diez-y-Riega
Sponsor: Dr. Carlos Manzanares

"Thermal Lens in Cryogenic Solutions: Vibrational Overtone Spectra on Benzene in Liquid Ethane"
International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
Columbus, Ohio. June 15-20, 2008.

Nathan Duncan
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Garner

"Electronic Effects in the Regioselectivity of Pyrazole Synthesis"
American Chemical Society National Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August 16-21, 2008.

Nar Fard
Sponsor: Dr.Kevin Chambliss

"Novel Approach to Prediction of Hydrolysate fermentability based on Chemometric Modeling of Spectroscopic data"
31st Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
San Francisco, California. May 3-6, 2009.

Basu Panthi
Sponsor: Dr. Steve Gibson

"Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrochemistry of RhCOR(P-P) X Complexes"
Southwest Meeting of the American Chemical Society
Little Rock, Arkansas. October 1-4, 2008.

Pilar Perez-Hurtado
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Constructed Wetland Treatment of Select Pharmaceuticals in a Municipal Effluent"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America 29th Annual Meeting
Tampa, Florida. November 21-25, 2008.

Yasnahir Perez-Delgado
Sponsor: Dr. Carlos Manzanares

"Cavity Ring Down at Low Temperatures: Vibrational Overtone Absorption of Deuterated Methanes at 110K"
International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy 63rd Meeting
Columbus, Ohio. June 15-20, 2008.

Sheena Shipley
Sponsor: Dr. Sung-Kun Kim

"Redox Properties of Arsenate Reductase from Synechocystis SP. PCC6803"
American Society for BioChemistry and Molecular Biology
New Orleans, Louisiana. April 18-22, 2009.

Church-State Studies

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Craig Engelhardt
Sponsor: Dr. Perry Glanzer

"Must Public Education be Common?"
Academy for Educational Studies
Springfield, Illinois. October 20-21, 2008.

Meredith Holladay
Sponsor: Dr.Charles McDaniel

"You Are What You Eat: Bread, Hunger, and the Body of Christ"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Notre Dame, Indiana. May 28-31, 2009.

Jennifer Kent
Sponsor: Dr.Daniel Payne

"Defying Boundaries: The Challenge of Transnational Religion to International Relations"
Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association
Chicago, Illinois. April 2-5, 2009.

Amanda Napoli
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marsh

"Uniquely Pentecost: What a Global Movement Teaches Us about Women and Religion"
American Academy of Religion Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. November 1-3, 2008.

Nicholas Pruitt
Sponsor: Dr.Barry Hankins

Symposium on Religion and Politics
Grand Rapids, Michigian. April 23-25, 2009.

Gabrielle Sutherland
Sponsor: Dr. J.S. Hamilton

"Clare of Assisi at the Crossroads of History: Out of the Shadow of Francis"
Texas Medieval Association Conference
Lubbock, Texas. October 2-5, 2008.

"The Lady Clare of Assisi: The Franciscan Experiment as the Antidote to the Cathars in Thirteenth Century Umbria"
Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico. March 6-7, 2009.

Artyom Tonoyan
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marsh

"Trading the Hammer and Sickle for Cross and Crescent?: Religion and The Armenian-Azeri Conflict"
Empires and Nations Conference
Paris, France. July 3-5, 2008.

"The Armenian Minority Question in Georgia: Recent Developments"
Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention
Manhattan, New York. April 23-25, 2009.

Xiaheng Xie
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marsh

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. April 2-5, 2009.

Zhifeng Zhong
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marsh

"The Effect of Restrictive and Repressive Religious Policy and its Institutional Source"
Beijing Summit on Chinese Spirituality and Society
Beijing, China. October 8-11, 2008.

"The Emerging of House Church in Transitional China: Political Orgin and Culture Dynamics"
Paul Henry Institute symposium on Religion and Politics
Grand Rapid, Minnesota. April 23-25, 2009.

Curriculum & Instruction

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Kristen Arterbury
Sponsor: Dr. Trena Wilkerson

"Fraction Pieces and Parts-Lessons for Kindergarten and Up"
National Council of Teachers Mathematics Regional Conference
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. October 1-3, 2008.

Susan Cooper-Twamley
Sponsor: Dr. Trena Wilkerson

"Edward Brooks or E.L. Thorndike: A Comparison of Two Historical Figures on Mathematics Curriculum and Teaching"
Midwest History of Education Society
Chicago, Illinois. October 8-10, 2008.

"Fraction Pieces and Parts"
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. October 2-3, 2008.

Connee Duran
Sponsor: Dr. Wesley Null

"Has the Texas Revolution Changed: A Review of U.S. History Textbooks from 1897 to 2003"
Midwest History of Education Society Conference
Chicago, Illinois. October 10-11, 2008.

Dittika Guptra
Sponsor: Dr. Trena Wilkerson

"Exploring Pascal's Triangle in the Classroom"
National Council of Teachers Mathematics Regional Conference
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. October 2-3, 2008.

Dionne Jackson
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"Efficacy Beliefs as Dispositions: The Impact of Extended Field Experiences in Urban Schools"
Association of Teacher Educators
Dallas, TX. February 15-18, 2009.

Mark Montgomery
Sponsor: Dr. Trena Wilkerson

"Exploring Pascal's Triangle in the Classroom" "Fraction Pieces and Parts: Lessons for Kindergarten and Up"
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. October 2-3, 2008.

"Effects of Participation in Research on Pre-Service Teachers Mathematical and Pedagogical Content Knowledge"
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
Orlando, Florida. February 5-7, 2009.

James Rodgers
Sponsor: Dr. Wesley Null

"Attacking Communists as Commissioner: The Role of Earl J. McGrath in the Red Scare of the 1950s"
Midwest History of Education Society Conference
Chicago, Illinois. October 10-11, 2008.

Communication Sciences and Disorders

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Kana Abe
Sponsor: Dr. David Schlueter

"Let's Have Fun with a Video Project: Step by Step Guide for Your Classroom Video Project"
Texas Foreign Language Association Fall 2008
Houston, Texas. October 17-18, 2008.

Maria Modayil
Sponsor: Dr. Michaela Ritter

"Naming Performance in Bilingual Aphasics: Using Various Cueing Strategies"
American Speech and Hearing Association Conference
Chicago, Illinois. November 20-22, 2008.

Directing

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Dan Buck
Sponsor: Dr. Deanna Toten Beard

"Postmodern Piazzas: Commedia dell'arte as a model in Contemporary Non-Theatre Disciplines"
Comparative Drama Conference
Los Angeles, California. March 26-28, 2009.

Mike Coon
Sponsor: Dr. Deanna Toten Beard

"Curlew River and Calvary: Exploitations of the No Theatre Disguised as an Enlivening of Christianity"
Comparative Drama Conference
Los Angeles, California. March 26-28, 2009.

Shelby Hibbs
Sponsor: Dr. Deanna Toten Beard

"Myers Briggs and Waiting for Godot: a Director's Exploration of Psychology and Beckett"
Mid America Theatre Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 5-8, 2009.

Allison Kuty
Sponsor: Dr.Frank Shushok

"Motivation Station: How to get 300 to 3,000 on the Orientation Train"
National Orientation Directors Association Regional Conference
Arlington, Texas. February 20-22, 2009.

Educational Administration

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Allison Kuty
Sponsor: Dr. Frank Shushok

"Motivation Station: How to get 300 to 3,000 on the Orientation Train"
National Orientation Directors Association Regional conference
Arlington,Texas. February 20-22, 2009.

Jeremy Snipes
Sponsor: Dr. Elizabeth Palacios

"Leadership Empowerment for Mulitcultural Student Organization Leaders: An Interdisciplinary Approach"
NASPA 2009 Annual Conference
Seattle, Washington. March 7-11, 2009.

Educational Psychology

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Amanda Alfano
Sponsor: Dr. Tamara Hodges

"The Prevalence of Eating Disorders in a High School Sample"
National Association of School Psychology Conference
Boston, Massachusetts. February 24-March 1, 2009.

Ikuko Aoyama
Sponsor: Dr. Terrill Saxon

"Cyber bullying Internationally Increasing: New Challenges in Technology Generation"
International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice
Chicago, Illinois. June 7-8, 2008.

Ryan Burnett
Sponsor: Dr. Jennifer Shewmaker

"Accommodating for Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Effect of a Social Skills Group Intervention on the Behavior of a Child with Autism"
Texas Association of School Psychologists 16th Annual Professional Development Conference
San Antonio, Texas. October 9-11, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr.Julie Ivey

"Social Skills Group Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders"
National Association of School Psychologists Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. February 24-28, 2009.

Rachel Colvin-Jenkins
Sponsor: Dr. Susan Johnsen

"An Introduction to Twice-Exceptional Learners"
Texas Association of Gifted and Talented 31st Annual Meeting
Dallas, Texas. November 12-14.2008.

"An Introduction to Twice-Exceptional Learners"
Texas Association of Gifted and Talented Parent Conference
San Antonio, Texas. February 24-28, 2009.

Ann Holt
Sponsor: Dr. Julie Ivey

"Comparing Parental Coping of Children with ASD, MR, or ED"
National Association of School Psychologists Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. February 24-28, 2009.

Jennifer Kidd
Sponsor: Dr. Tamara Hodges

"Comprehensive Intervention Model"
National Association of School Psychologists Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. February 24-28, 2009.

Kristen Mainor
Sponsor: Dr. Julie Ivey

"Social Skills Group Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders"
National Association of School Psychology Conference
Boston, Massachusetts. February 24-28, 2009.

"Parental Perceptions of Social Skills as a Result of Group Interventions in Children with ASD"
Texas Association of School Psychologists 16th Annual Professional Development Conference
San Antonio, Texas. October 9-11, 2008.

Karen Rollins
Sponsor: Dr. Susan Johnsen

"Twice Exceptional: Twice as Difficult?"
Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented
Dallas, Texas. November 12-14, 2008.

"Student Membership in The Association of the the Gifted-Council for Exceptional Children"
Council for Exceptional Children Convention
Seattle, Washington. April 1-4, 2009.

Engineering

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Kirk Bolton
Sponsor: Dr.Ian Gravagne

"Design of a Solar Thermal Collector Simulator"
American Society for Engineering Education
Waco, Texas. March 18-20, 2009.

Thomas Cemo
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Van Treuren

"Design of a Solar Thermal Collector Simulator"
American Society for Engineering Education
Waco, Texas. March 18-20, 2009.

Sean Conroy
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradley

"Wholetree: A Triple Bottom Line Company. Converting Renewable Resources into Value-Added Solutions"
IC and WBT University Technology Commercialization Competition
Arlington, Texas. March 23-25, 2009.

Shu Du
Sponsor: Dr.Kwang Lee

"Short-Term Load Forecasting Using System-Type Neural Network Architecture"
American Society for Engineering Education
Waco, Texas. March 18-20, 2009.

Stanton Greer
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradley

participation
2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Boston, Massachusetts. October 31- November 2, 2008.

Elisa Guzman
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradley

participation
2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Boston, Massachusetts. October 31- November 2, 2008.

"A Folk Theologian's Forays into Science: John Wesley's Scientific Thought as Revealed in Select Writings"
RE:FORM Conference: A Focusing Forum for Christian Social Change
Boise, Idaho. September 24-26, 2008.

John Miller
Sponsor: Dr. Ian Gravagne

"Stability of Simultaneously Triangularizable Switched Linear Systems on Time Scales"
American Society for Engineering Education
Waco, Texas. March 18-20, 2009.

English

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Adrienne Akins
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Ford

"Percy's Love in The Runis"
Southern American Studies Association Biennial Conference
Fairfax, Virginia. February 12-14, 2009.

"Put Banner on the Map!: Knowledge, Power, and Colonialism in Losing Battles"
Eudora Welty Society Centenial Conference
Jackson, Mississippi. April 16-19, 2009.

Bethany Bear
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"Writing within a Zone of Grace:Eavan Boland, Sacred Space, and the Redemption of Representation"
2009 American Conference for Irish Studies
Chattanooga, Tennessee. March 20-22, 2009.

"'Earth grown old, yet still so green': The End of Time in Christina Rossetti's Advent Poems"
Fresh Threads of Connection: British Women Writer's Conference 2009
Iowa City, Iowa. April 1-5, 2009.

Jeffrey Bilbro
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferretter

"The Redemptive Nature of Fly-Fishing"
South Central Modern Language Association Annual Conference
San Antonio, Texas. November 6-8, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr. Ralph Wood

"Speaking Truth to Power"
Regional Christianity and Literature Conference
Newberg, Oregon. April 16-18, 2009.

Anna Blanch
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Prickett

"Children and the Ill-Used Judicial System in E. Nesbit's Railway Children and the Magic City"
Modern Language Association Conference
San Francisco, California. December 27-30, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr.David Jeffery

"The Strength of the Female Mind or the Chiding of the Privileged and Powerful by Mrs. Hanna More"
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Newberg, Oregon. April 16-18, 2009.

Noelle Davies
Sponsor: Dr. Ron Thomas

"Peter S. Beagle's 'The Last Unicorn' and Defining Magical Realism"
Mythcon 39 'The Valkyrie and the Goddess: The Warrior Women in Fantasy'
New Britain, Connecticut. August 15-18, 2008.

Lanta Davis
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Ford

"Everyday Redemption: Salvation in the Sacred Ordinary in the Color Purple"
South Central Modern Language Association Annual Conference
San Antonio, Texas. November 6-8, 2008.

Denise Galloway
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Losey

"The Very Latest Scientific Ideas: Dorothy Sayers' Reconciliation of Science and Religion, Modernity and Tradition in the The Documents in the Case"
Calvin Conference
Grand Rapids, Michigan. March 27-28, 2009.

Jessica Hooten
Sponsor: Dr. Ralph Wood

"Dissertation Prospectus on Flannery O' Connor and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov"
Poetics and Christianity Conference
Rome, Italy. April 20-22,2009.

Nathan Kilpatrick
Sponsor: Dr.Sarah Ford

Southeastern Region Conference on Christianity and Literature
Lookout Mountain,Georgia. April 2-4, 2009.

Sponsor: Dr.James Barcus

Western Region Conference on Christianity and Literature
Newberg, Oregon. April 16-18, 2009.

Mollie Moore
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Fulton

"In Christopher Newman We Trust: Gold, gods, and glory in Henry James' The American"
Speaking Truth to Power Conference
Newberg, Oregon. April 16-18, 2009.

Amanda Nydegger
Sponsor: Dr. Maurice Hunt

"The Performed Identity of Credulous Manipulators: Cassius and Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar"
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference
Bozeman, Montana. April 30-May 2, 2009.

Rachel Payne
Sponsor: Dr. William Pitts

"Women and Religion in Early American Thought"
South Central Modern Language Association Annual Conference
San Antonio, Texas. November 6-8, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr. Tracy D. Hoffman

"Cultivating Empathy: Reading into Religions Literacy"
20th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association
Boston, Massachusetts. May 22-24, 2009.

Steve Petershiem
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferretter

"Hawthorne's Veiled Lady and The Borders of Reality"
South Central Modern Language Association Annual Conference
San Antonio, Texas. November 6-8, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"From Flight to Light: The Dantean Grounding of Heaney's Poetic Sensibility"
2009 American Conference for Irish Studies
Chattanooga, Tennessee. March 20-22, 2009.

Courtney Salvey
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Losey

"Designed in Nature: Responsibility, God, and Machines in 19th Century Britain"
Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. March 26-28, 2009.

"Samuel Smiles and the Literati: the Image of the Victorian Engineer"
Tipping Points: Pivotal Moments in Victorian Culture
Richmond, Indiana. April 17-19, 2009.

Margy Thomas
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Fulton

South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. May 22-23, 2009.

Daniel Train
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"Climbing the Tower: Reading Vision in Yeats"
2009 American Conference for Irish Studies
Chattanooga, Tennessee. March 19-21, 2009.

Sponsor: Dr. Ralph Wood

"Human Experience as the Mask of God: The Hero's Journey as the Quest for the Sacred in Literature and the Arts"
South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. May 22-23, 2009.

Danielle Williams
Sponsor: Dr.Jay Losey

"How to Celebrate Life: Conflict in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse"
West Regional Christianity and Literature Conference
Newberg, Oregon. April 16-18, 2009.

Vivien Zelazny
Sponsor: Dr.David Jeffrey

International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 7-10, 2009.

Environmental Science

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Laura Dobbins
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Traditional and Alternative Endpoints of Paraben Toxicity to Select Aquatic Organisms Utilizing Chemical Toxicity Distributions"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America 29th Annual Meeting
Tampa, Florida. November 16-20. 2008.

Barry Fulton
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Responses of Lemna gibba Exposed to Rriclosan Across a Gradient of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Ratios and Concentrations"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America 29th Annual Meeting
Tampa, Florida. November 16-20. 2008.

"Stream Mesocosm and laboratory Responses of Lemna gibba to Triclosan at Different Phosphorus Levels"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry World Congress
Sydney, Australia. August 3-7, 2008.

Susan James
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Comparative Toxicity of Prymnesium parvum to Freshwater Organisms and Toxin Photodegradation"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry South Central Regional Chapter Annual Meeting
San Marcos, Texas. May 21-23, 2009.

"Comparative Sensitivity of Select Aquatic Organisms to the Harmful Algae Prymnesium Parvum"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Congress
Tampa, Florida. November 16-20, 2008.

Ted Valenti
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Comparative Sensitivity of Select Aquatic Organisms to the Harmful Algae Prymnesium Parvum"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Congress
Tampa, Florida. November 16-20, 2008.

"Traditional and Alternative Endpoints in Ecological Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals: A Case Study with Pimephales promelas and Sertraline"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry World Congress
Sydney, Australia. August 3-7, 2008.

Geology

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Nathaniel Ball
Sponsor: Dr. Stacy Atchley

"Depositional and Digenetic Controls on Reservoir Quality and Their Petro physical Predictors in the Upper Cretaceous Doe Creek Member at Valhalla Field, Northwest Alberta"
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Student Expo
Houston, Texas. October 8-9, 2008.

Alan Gunnell
Sponsor: Dr. John Dunbar

"Imaging Vents and Migration Pathwaysof Methane Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi Canyon Block 118"
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Student Expo
Norman, Oklahoma. March 12-14, 2009.

Luke Hunt
Sponsor: Dr. Stacy Atchley

"Sequence stratigraphic and Depositional Controls on Reservoir Continuity for the Cretaceous Doe Creek Member of the Kaskapu Formation, Valhalla Field, Alberta, Canada"
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Student Expo
Houston, Texas. October 8-9, 2008.

Aaron Shunk
Sponsor: Dr. Steven Driese

"Research for the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Society Members"
Geological Society of America Joint Assembly
Houston, Texas. October 5-9, 2008.

Jason Mintz
Sponsor: Dr. Steven Driese

"Environmental and Ecological Variability of Middle Devonian (Givetian) Forested Palesols in the Catskill Region, Appalachian Basin, New York"
Geological Society of America
Portland, Maine. March 22-24, 2009.

Daniel Wegert
Sponsor: Dr. Don Parker

"Petro genesis of Trachyandesite from the McDermott Formation, San Juan, Basin, Colorado, and New Mexico"
National Convention of the Geological Society
Houston, Texas. October 6-9, 2008.

History

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Richard Fair
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Rust

"The Rebirth of Urban Light-Rail Transportation in Texas"
Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 8-11, 2009.

Courtenay Harold
Sponsor: Dr. Beth Barr

"Fitting the Mold: Understanding Feminine Liberation and Restriction within Colonial Puritanism"
Conference of Faith and History
Bluffton, Ohio. September 18-20, 2008.

Daniel Hoover
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Rust

"The Interstate Highway System Comes to Texas"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Denver, Colorado. April 8-11, 2009.

Rebecca Rice
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Rust

"The History of the Gulf Intra-Coastal Waterway in Texas"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Denver, Colorado. April 8-11, 2009.

Joshua Tackett
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Rust

"Baptists and the Struggle over Prohibition"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Denver, Colorado. April 10-11, 2009.

Elizabeth Wilson
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Rust

"Baptists Involvement in Overseas Missionary Work"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Denver, Colorado. April 7-11, 2009.

Cassie Yacovazzi
Sponsor: Dr. Beth Barr

"An American Saint"
Conference of Faith and History
Bluffton, Ohio. September 18-20, 2008.

HHPR

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Kristen Beavers
Sponsor: Dr. Mike Greenwood

"Comparison of two 10-week diet and exercise programs for weight loss in women"
Experimental Biology 2009
New Orleans, Louisiana. April 18-21, 2009.

Thomas Buford
Sponsor: Dr. Darryn Willoughby

"The Effects of Protease Supplementation on Markers of Muscle Damage Prior to and Following Intense Eccentric Exercise"
International Society of Sports Nutrition
Las Vegas, Nevada. June 9-10, 2008.

"The Acute Effects of Heavy Resistance Exercise on the Local Inflammatory Response in Physically- Active, Post-Menopausal Women in Absence of Hormone Replacement Therapy"
American Physiology Society's Biology of Exercise
Hilton Head, South Carolina. September, 25-27, 2008.

Julie Culbertson
Sponsor: Dr. Mike Greenwood

"Relationship of Various Body Composition Parameters Used for Predicting VO"
International Society of Sports Nutrition Conference and Expo
Las Vegas, Nevada. June 9-10, 2008.

Jean Jitomir
Sponsor: Dr. Darryn Willoughby

"Anthropometric Changes of a Female Bodybuilder on a High-protein,Hypo caloric Diet"
International Society of Sports Nutrition Conference and Expo
Las Vegas, Nevada. June 9-10, 2008.

Erika Nassar
Sponsor: Dr. Darryn Willoughby

"The Effects of Ingesting an Anti-Inflammatory Nutritional Supplement While Participating in a Resistance Training Program on Indices of Body Composition and Metabolic, Cardiovascular, Muscular and Hemodynamic Function in Overweight Females"
International Society of Sports Nutrition Conference and Expo
Las Vegas, Nevada. June 9-10, 2008.

Monica Serra
Sponsor: Dr. Mike Greenwood

"Comparison of two ready-to-eat cerals as partial replacements in a 2-week weight loss plan"
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
New Orleans, Louisiana. April 18-22, 2009.

Journalism

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Michelle Gross
Sponsor: Dr.Eric Rust

"Southern Baptists and Prohibition"
Southwestern Social Sciences Conference
Denver, Colorado. April 7-11, 2009.

Ryan Pierce
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"Online News Web Sites: User Preferences for Content Amount and Organization"
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Midwinter Conference
Norman, Oklahoma. March 6-8, 2009.

Cody Winchester
Sponsor: Dr. Amanda Sturgill

"The Effect of Audio Recording on Reportorial Accuracy: Implications for Teaching Beginning Journalists"
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Midwinter Conference
Norman, Oklahoma. March 6-9, 2009.

Mathematics

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Andrea Bruder
Sponsor: Dr. Lance Littlejohn

"An Application of the Left-Definite Spectral Theory to the Jacobi Differential Equation for Non-Classical Parameters"
Joint Mathematics Meeting
Washington, D.C. January 5-9, 2009.

Alexander Cornelius
Sponsor: Dr. David Ryden

"Inverse Limits of Compact Hausdorff Spaces with Upper Semi-Continuous Bonding Maps"
American Mathematical Society Southeastern Meeting
Huntsville, Alabama. October 24-26, 2008.

"Inverse Limits with Set-Valued Functions"
Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference
Gainesville, Florida. March 7-9, 2009.

Leslie Jones
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Raines

"Adding Machines and Endpoints"
Fall Southwestern Meeting of American Math Society
Huntsville, Alabama. October 24-26, 2008.

"Kneading Sequences of Strange Adding Machines"
Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference
Gainesville, Florida. March 7-9, 2009.

Alice Ramos
Sponsor: Dr. John Davis

"The Dynamic Lyapunov Equation on Time Scales"
Joint Mathematics Meeting
Washington, D.C. January 5-8, 2009.

Casey Sherman
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Raines

"A Lebesque-Like Measure for Inverse Limit Space"
Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference
Gainesville, Florida. March 7-11, 2009.

Music

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Joanie Brittingham
Sponsor: Dr. Deborah Williamson

Participant
Early Music Vancouver Baroque Vocal Program
Vancouver, Canada. August 3-16, 2008.

Participant
Classical Singer Convention
Chicago, Illinois. May 29-31, 2009.

Zach Buie
Sponsor: Dr. Wiff Rudd

Audition
United States Navy Band
Washington, DC. October 31, 2008.

Audition
Air Force Ceremonial Brass
Washington, DC. January 26-28, 2009.

Kelly O'Neil
Sponsor: Dr.Jeffrey Powers

Participant
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, Louisiana. March 31-April 1, 2009.

Elizabeth Saxe
Sponsor: Dr. Deborah Williamson

Participant
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
San Antonio, Texas. September 27-28, 2008.

Participant
Edward Baird Sing of the Year Competition
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. November 5-8, 2008.

Philosophy

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Mark Boone
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"The Unity of the Virtues and the Devolution of Kallipolis"
North Texas Philosophical Association
Denton, Texas. March 26-28, 2009.

Ryan Byerly
Sponsor: Dr. Alex Pruss

"Elimination and Reference"
New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Association Meeting
Houston, Texas. March 26-28, 2009.

"Thomas Crisp's Presentism"
Society of Christian Philosophers Midwest Regional Meeting
Shawnee, Oklahoma. April 23-25, 2009.

Michael Cantrell
Sponsor: Dr. C. Stephen Evans

"Was Socrates a Christian Before Christ? Kierkegaard and the Problem of Christian Uniqueness" and "William James' Unacknowledged Divine Command Meta-Ethics"
Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 27-30, 2008.

Paul Carron
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Frankfurt on the Importance of What We Care About: A Kierkegaardian Critique"
Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting
Worcester, MA. March 27-28, 2009.

"Freedom, Emotions, and Second-Order Desires in Kierkegaard's Christian Discourses"
American Philosophical Society Pacific Division Meeting
Vancouver, Canada. April 9-12, 2009.

Travis Coblentz
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Lex Luther vs. Superman: Using Bonheoffer to Make Nietzsche's Ethic Christian"
Evangelical Theological Society Conference
Providence, Rhode Island. November 19-21, 2008.

Daniel Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Alex Pruss

"Proper Function and Should-Be-Believed Defeaters"
2009 Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Chicago, Illinois. February 18-21, 2009.

Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Kierkegaard and the Reformed Objection to Natural Theology"
Society of Christian Philosophers Midwest Regional Meeting
Shawnee, Oklahoma. April 23-25, 2009.

Jessy Jordan
Sponsor: Dr. Anne-Marie Bowery

"Fight Club as Pseudo-Festivity: An Encounter with Josef Pieper"
Film and Philosophy Conference
Bristol, UK. July 4-6, 2008.

Andrew Nam
Sponsor: Dr. C. Stephen Evans

"Kierkegaard's Metaphysical-Practical Critique of Hegel in The Concept of Anxiety"
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana. March 6-8, 2009.

Adam Pelser
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Emotional Knowledge: Emotion as a Basic Source of Justification"
American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. February 18-21, 2009.

"Emotional Wisdom as Intellectual Virtue in Aristotle's Ethics"
Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Divisional Meeting
Worcester, Massachusetts. March 27-29, 2009.

Gregory Poore
Sponsor: Dr. Anne-Marie Bowery

"Community, Human Nature, and the Care of the Severely Disabled:A Critique of MacIntyre's Account"
International Society for MacIntyrean Philosophy
St. Meinrad, Indiana. July 30 to August 3, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr. Alex Pruss

"Closed Causal Systems and the Hume-Edwards Principle"
Midwestern Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers
Shawnee, Oklahoma. April 23-25, 2009.

Jonathan Sands Wise
Sponsor: Dr. Anne-Marie Bowery

"Theory, Practice, and Tradition: Human Rationality in Pursuit of the Good Life"
International Society for MacIntyrean Philosophy
St. Meinrad, Indiana. July 30 to August 3, 2008.

"Giving Eudaimonism Its Due"
Pacific Section of the American Philosophical Association
Vancouver, Canada. April 8-12, 2009.

Joel Schwartz
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Show Me the Meaning!: A Wittgensteinian Apologetic"
Evangelical Theological Society Conference
Providence, Rhode Island. November 21, 2008.

Chris Shrock
Sponsor: Dr. Alex Pruss

"Reid, Aristotle, and Color"
New-Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society
Houston, Texas. March 27-29, 2009.

Sponsor: Dr.Todd Buras

"Aristotle, Free Will and Determinism"
Central Society of Christian Philosophers Meeting
Shawnee, Oklahoma. April 24-25, 2009.

Tom Tong
Sponsor: Dr. Bob Roberts

"Was Augustine an Identity Theorist about Truth?"
"Philosophy: East & West" International Conference for Young Scholars
Hong Kong, China. May 25-27, 2009.

Physics

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Martin Frank
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Dittmann

"A Combined Search for $WH$ Production in the $/ell/nu b/overline(b)$ Decay Channelat CDF"
2009 American Physical Society's April Meeting
Denver, Colorado. May 2-5, 2009.

Samantha Hewamanage
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Dittmann

"Anomalous Production of Photon + Jets + Missing Transverse Energy"
International Conference on High Energy Physics
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. July 29 to August 5, 2008.

Prasanga Palihawadana
Sponsor: Dr. Wickramasinghe Ariyasinghe

"A Comparative Study of Total Electron Scattering Cross Sections of Plasma Processing Gasses at Intermediate Electron Energies"
50th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics
Dallas, Texas. November 17-21, 2008.

Political Science

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Elizabeth Amato
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Nichols

"Friendship and Happiness in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter"
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois. April 2-5, 2009.

Anthony Bartl
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Nichols

"Aristotle in Paradise: The Son of God as Milton's Magnanimous Man"
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois. April 3-5, 2009.

Steve Block
Sponsor: Dr. David Clinton

"Hobbes's Appeal to Pride as the Foundation for Political Obligation"
2009 Southern Political Science Association
New Orleans, Louisiana. January 8-10, 2009.

Matthew Brogdon
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"Reassessing the Institutional Role of Judicial Power in the Constitutional System: Current Theory and Future Prospects"
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois. April 2-4, 2009.

Patrick Cain
Sponsor: Dr. David Solomon

"Aristotle and the Virtue of Womanliness: the Mother as the Source and Foundation of Political Life"
Notre Dame Center for Ethics Annual Conference
South Bend, Indiana. November 6-8, 2008.

Matthew Dinan
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Nichols

"The Apology of Rene Descartes: Philosophy and the City in the Discourse on Method"
2009 Southern Political Science Association Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. January 7-10, 2009.

"Kierkegaard's Return to Socratic Political Philosophy in Fear and Trembling"
Midwestern Political Science Association Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. April 2-5, 2009.

Amy Edmonds
Sponsor: Dr. Jerold Waltman

"The Catholic Church and the Nonviolent Resistance in Chile"
2009 Southwestern Political Science Association
Denver, Colorado. April 8-11, 2009.

Jerome Foss
Sponsor: Dr. David Clinton

"Francisco Suarez and Modernity"
Conference of Faith and History
Bluffton, Ohio. September 18-20, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr. Dwight Allman

"John Rawl's Nietzschean Turn"
Southwest Political Science Association Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 7-11, 2009.

Davd Ramsey
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"Can Counts Regulate the Economy? A Friendly Critique of the Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis"
Midwestern Political Science Association Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. April 2-5, 2009.

Julianne Romanello
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Nichols

"Kierkegaard, Bellow, and American Estheticism"
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association
Chicago, Illinois. April 2-4, 2009.

Anthony Romano
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"A Critical Look at the Use of Special Masters in the Supreme Court's Original Jurisdiction Cases"
Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 9-12, 2009.

Joseph Wysocki
Sponsor: Dr. Jerold Waltman

"Abstraction or Community? Teleology and the Common Good in M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water"
Faith, Film, and Philosophy Conference
Spokane, Washington. October 31-November 1, 2008.

Psychology and Neuroscience

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Ikuko Aoyama
Sponsor: Dr. Terrill Saxon

"Cyber bullying Internationally Increasing: New Challenges in Technology Generation"
American Educational Research Association Conference
Chicago, Illinois. June 7-8, 2008.
Sponsor: Dr. Terrill Saxon

"A Cross-Cultural Study on Cyber-Bullying among High School Students in U.S. and Japan"
5th International Conference on Teacher Education/Social Justice
San Diego, California. April 13-17, 2009.

Hillary Blakeley
Sponsor: Dr. Bradley Keele

"Functional Roles of Arg-vasopressin and Oxytocin on Cellular Excitability in Neurons of the Rat Lateral Amygdala-33.10"
Society for Neuroscience Conference
Washington, D.C. November 14-19, 2008.

Amanda Holmes
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Weaver

"Confidence Ratings, Remember/Know Judgments, and Misinformation Effects in Eyewitnesses"
Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
Chicago, Illinois. November 13-16, 2008.

Megan Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Wade Rowatt

"Are All Neighbors Helped Equally?: Possible Intergroup Bias in Religious Groups and its Effects on Volunteering Behavior"
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Tampa, Florida. February 4-8, 2009.

Jordan Labouff
Sponsor: Dr. Wade Rowatt

"Associations among Religiousness, Social Attitudes, and Baylor University Prejudice in a National Random Sample of American Adults"
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Tampa, Florida. February 4-7, 2009.

Bonnie Lasher
Sponsor: Dr. Bradley Keele

"Bilateral 5,7-DHT Lesions of the Rat Lateral Nucleus of the Amygdala Increases Fear Learning"
Society for Neuroscience Conference
Washington, D.C. November 15-19, 2008.

Religion

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John Anderson
Sponsor: Dr. W. H. Bellinger. Jr.

"The Ancestral Covenant in Psalms 105 and 106: Their Function as the Conclusion to Book Four of the Psalter" "Jesus and Patriarchs: The Imminent Fulfillment of the Patriarchal Promise in Matt 8: 5-13"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 21-25, 2008.

"A Trickster Oracle: Reading Jacob and Esau between Beten and Bethel"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. March 7-8, 2009.

Bethany Bear
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"Writing within a Zone of Grace: Eavan Boland, Sacred Space, and the Redemption of Representation"
American Conference for Irish Studies
Chattanooga, Tennessee. March 20-22, 2009.

"'Earth grown old, yet still so green': The End of Time in Christina Rossetti's Advent Poems"
Fresh Threads of Connection: British Women Writer's Convention 2009
Iowa City, Iowa. April 1-5, 2009.

Ginny Brewer-Boydston
Sponsor: Dr. J.M. Kennedy

"Why God is Not: An 'Idolic' Reading of Isaiah 45:18-19"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 21-25, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr. Lidjia Novakovic

"They Walk in Wisdom or Folly: The Intensification of Wisdom and Folly in the Dead Sea Scrolls: a Comparison with Proverbs and the Two Spirits Treatise"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Irving, Texas. March 7-8, 2009.

Richard Brumback
Sponsor: Dr. D.H. Williams

"The Holy Trinity in the Life of the Church"
Pappas Patristic Institute of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Brookline, Massachusetts. October 9-11, 2008.

"The Holy Trinity in the Life of the Church"
North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. May 21-23, 2009.

Kalvin Budiman
Sponsor: Dr. Peter Candler

"Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin: Seeing God's Creation through the Same Window"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Irving, Texas. March 7-8, 2009.

Scott Bullard
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Harvey

"Baptist Colleges and Henri de Lubac's 'The Eucharist Makes the Church'"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Notre Dame, Indiana. May 28-31, 2009.

Craig Clarkson
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"On Dissent among Dissenters"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Irving, Texas. March 7-8, 2009.

Brandon Frick
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Bellinger

"Domination or Relation?: Jesus Christ and the Exercise of Dominion"
College Theology Society Annual Convocation
South Bend, Indiana. May 28-31, 2009.

Roy Garton
Sponsor: Dr. James Nogalski

"The Death of a Psalmist: A Literacy Reading and Structural Analysis of Psalm 88"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Irving, Texas. March 7-8, 2009.

Bracy Hill
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"Providence and Plague: The Roles of Disease, Providence and Science in the Eighteenth- Century Histories and Works of Daniel Neal"
Conference of Faith and History
Bluffton, Ohio. September 18-20, 2008.

"James Peirce and the Presbyterians: The Exeter Controversy and the Evolution of 'Dissent' in the Writings of James Peirce"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Irving, Texas. March 7-8, 2009.

W.G. Hulbert
Sponsor: Dr. James Kennedy

"Graphic Imagery and Language in Jeremiah 7.30-8.3"
Stone Campbell Journal Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio. April 17-18, 2009.

Jangho Jo
Sponsor: Dr. Bob Patterson

"Worshipping as Ass: Jewish and Christian Responses"
2009 Graduate Student Patristic Studies Conference
Brookline, Massachusetts. March 19-20, 2009.
Sponsor: Dr. D.H. Williams

"Reading Scripture and Protestant Self: A Response to C.G. Jung's Critique"
55th Annual College Theology Society Convention
Notre Dame, Indiana. May 28-30, 2009.

Jim Keener
Sponsor: Dr. W. H. Bellinger. Jr.

"How to Tie Knots That Will Hold"
Interdisciplianarity in Theology and Religion Conference
Durham, England. January 13-14, 2009.

"The Sum of the Parts: The Structural Organization of the Pesher on Psalm 37 in 4OpPs"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Meeting
Irving, Texas. March 7-8, 2009.

Courtney Lyons
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Rust

"Baptist Involvement in Overseas Missions: Southern Baptist Missionaries in Pinochet's Chile"
Southwest Social Science Association Conference
Denver, CO. April 7-11, 2009.

James McConnell
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"The Rhetorical Use of Oracles in Plutarch Lives and Old Testament Scripture in Luke Acts: An Investigation"
National Society of Biblical Literature Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 21-25, 2008.

David Melvin
Sponsor: Dr. Joel Burnett

"Gilgamesh as Gibbor and the Unity of Genesis 6:1-4 and the Enochic Watchers Tradition"
Evangelical Theological Society Conference
Providence, Rhode Island. November 19-21, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr. W.H. Bellinger Jr.

"The Poor, the Orphan, and the Gods: Psalm 82 as Deuteronomic Propaganda"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Dallas, Texas. March 7-8, 2009.

Alicia Myers
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"The One of Whom Moses Wrote: The Characterization of Jesus through OT Moses Traditions in the Gospel of John"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 21-25, 2008.

"Jesus as Ideal King: Isaiah 42 and the Characterization of Jesus in Matt 12: 17-21"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 21-25, 2008.

Keith Reich
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Figuring Jesus: The Characterization of Jesus through Rhetorical Figures of Speech"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 21-25, 2008.

Peter Reynolds
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"A Rhetorical Reading of Luke 5:1-11"
Southwest Regional Society of Biblical Literature Meeting
Dallas, Texas. March 7-8, 2009.

Chris Rios
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"The Credibility of Darwinism: The Early Victoria Institute and its views on Darwinian Science"
Conference of Faith and History
Bluffton, Ohio. September 18-20, 2008.

Brian Small
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"The Book of Hebrews' Critique of the Levi-Priestly Tradition"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. March 7-8, 2009.

Julien Smith
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Talbert

"The Construction of Identity in Mark 7:24-30: The Syrophoenician Woman and the Problem of Ethnicity"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 21-25, 2008.

Delayne Vaughn
Sponsor: Dr. Jim Nogalski

"Framing Characters: The Reader's Understanding of Assyria in Nahum, Hosea, and Jonah"
National Society of Biblical Literature Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 21-24, 2008.

Aaron Weaver
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Rust

"Baptists and the Separation of Church and State"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Denver, Colorado. April 7-11, 2009.

Kyle Welty
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"A Folk Theologian's Forays into Science: John Wesley's Scientific Thought as Revealed in Select Writings"
Conference of Faith and History
Bluffton, Ohio. September 18-20, 2008.

"The SPG's Mission' in Eighteenth Century Colonial America as Presented in Mayhew Controversy, c. 1763-1766"
American Society of Church History
Montreal, Quebec. April 16-8, 2009.

David Wilmington
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Harvey

"The Devil's Music Goes to Church: Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts as Inter-Community Theological Engagement"
American Academy of Religion Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. November 1-3, 2008.

Sociology

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Joseph Baker
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Bader

"God and Darwin™Again"
Society of the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 16-19, 2008.

Paul Castronova
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Bader

"Enter the Clay: State Intervention"
Southwestern Sociological Association Conference
Denver, Colorado. April 8-11, 2009.

Scott Draper
Sponsor: Dr. Jerry Park

"Religious Consumption and Social Attitudes: Rethinking the Influence of Religion"
Media, Spiritualities, and Social Change Conference
Boulder, Colorado. June 4-7, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr. Chris Bader

"Guardian Angels and Folk Religion in America"
Society of the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 17-19, 2008.

Elizabeth Embry
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Mexican American Women's Wages: Industry, Citizenship, and Contextual Effects"
Southwestern Social Science Association's Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 9-10, 2009.

Jessica Farrar
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Class Based Identity and Morality: How does opportunity for upward mobility affect perceptions of morality?"
Southwestern Social Science Association's Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 8-11, 2009.

Anna Garland
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Focus Groups: How a Research Center at a University can Stay Ahead of the Curve"
Southwestern Social Science Association's Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 8-11, 2009.

Alessandra Gonzalez
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Exploring Sociological Measures of Islamic Religious Tradition and Religiosity in Majority Muslim Countries"
Society of the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 17-19, 2008.
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Froese

"Islamic Diversity: Gender, Identity, and Economics"
Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture Conference
Washington, D.C. April 3-5, 2009.

Wesley Hinze
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"From Osama to Obama: Trust in Muslims among the Highly Religious in the United States"
Southern Sociological Society's Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. April 1-4, 2009.

"Civic Community and Crime: The Effects of Local Capitalism and an Engaged Citizenry on Crime Rates across U.S. Countries"
Southwestern Social Science Association's Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 7-10, 2009.

Eric Liu
Sponsor: Dr. Carson Mencken

"Reassessing Risk Preference Explanations in Chinese Context"
Society of the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 17-19, 2008.

"Does Religion Have the Individual Level Effect? Risk Preference and Religiosity in Buddhist Taiwan and Marxist-Atheist China"
Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture
Arlington, Virginia. April 3-5, 2009.

Jared Maier
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Dougherty

"Can a House Divided Stand? How Congregational Heterogeneity Affects Congregational Growth and Decline"
Society of the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 16-19, 2008.

Ashley Palmer-Boyes
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Economic Restructuring in the Meatpacking Industry and Religious Adherence in the Rural Midwest"
Society of the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 17-19, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr.Chris Bader

"Assessing Risk Preference by Gender in Power-Control Theory"
Southwestern Social Science Association's Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 8-11, 2009.

Casey Pederson
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Race, Religion, and Poverty Values"
Southwestern Sociological Association's Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 11- 12, 2009.

Edward Polson
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Social Diversity and Civic Engagement: The Effects of Ethnic and Social Heterogeneity on the Bridging Activity of Congregations"
Society of the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 17-19, 2008.

Jeremy Rhodes
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"What's a Mainline Protestant?: Assessing the Accuracy of America's Understanding of Religious Labels and the Utility of their Usage"
Society of the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 16-19, 2008.

Sponsor: Dr. Sung Joon Jang

"General Strain Theory and Peer Influence on Delinquency and Drug Use"
Annual Conference for the American Society of Criminology
St. Louis, Missouri. November 12-15, 2008.

Buster Smith
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Can a House Divided Stand? How Congregational Heterogeneity Affects Congregational Growth and Decline"
Society of the Scientific Study of Religion Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 17-19, 2008.

Andrew Whitehead
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Froese

"Religion, Attribution, and Same-Sex Unions"
Southwestern Social Science Association's Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 8-11, 2009.

Jeniece Williams
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Engaged. Empowered. Expect It!"
Annual Conference of the National Black Graduate Student Association
Houston, Texas. March 11-15, 2009.

"Resisting Change: Maintaining Cultural Identity within a Changing Community"
Southwestern Social Science Association's Meeting
Denver, Colorado. April 8-11, 2009.

Spanish

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Christian Alvarez
Sponsor: Dr. Baudelio Garza

"La emergente reestructuracion mercadotecnica a causa de la interdependencia entre los medios communicativos y la revalorizacion del del hispanoamericano como raza, cultura y consumidor"
Latin America: A People Without Boundaries?
Manhattan, New York. April 24-25, 2009.

Statistical Science

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Daniel Beavers
Sponsor: Dr. James Stamey

"A Baywsian Model Selection Procedure to Assess Conditional Dependence in Binary Response Data with Misclassification"
Southern Regional Council on Statistics 2008
Charleston, South Carolina. June 8-11, 2008.

"Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of Probabilities from Repeated Binary Diagnostic Tests"
Eastern North American Region of the International Biometrics
San Antonio, Texas. March 15-18, 2009.

Brandi Greer
Sponsor: Dr. Jack Tubbs

"Bayesian Analysis for the Difference of Poisson Rates with Data Subject to Under-Reporting"
New Researchers Conference
Boulder, Colorado. July 29 to August 2, 2008.

"Bayesian Analysis for the Difference of Poisson Rates with Data Subject to Under-Reporting"
Joint Statistical Meetings
Denver, Colorado. August 3-7, 2008.

Stephanie Powers
Sponsor: Dr. James Stamey

"Bayesian Variable Selection for Logistic Regression with Misclassification"
Joint Statistical Meetings
Denver, Colorado. August 3-7, 2008.

"Bayesian Variable Selection for Logistic Regression with Misclassification"
Statistical Society of Canada Annual Joint Meeting
Ottawa, Canada. May 25-29, 2008.

Philip Young
Sponsor: Dr. Dean Young

"Linear Dimension Reduction for Multiple Multivariate Skew-Normal Densities"
Joint Statistical Meetings
Denver, Colorado. August 3-7, 2008.